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FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS : an Enumeration of the Plants collected in 
the Island of Hong-Kong, by Capt. J. G. Champion, 9572 Reg., the 
determinations revised and the new species described by GEORGE 
BENTHAM, Esa. 
Capt. Champion’s labours in the investigation of the Flora of Hong- 
Kong, during his visit to that island with his regiment, have already 
been alluded to, and some of the new species he first sent over were 
described by the late Mr. Gardner, in the first volume of this Journal 
(pp. 240, 308, 321). He remained in the island three years, re- 
turning to Europe in 1850 with a collection of between five and six 
hundred phænogamous plants, comprising, with scarcely any ex- 
ceptions, all those previously found in the island by Mr. Hinds, and 
enumerated in the ‘London Journal of Botany’ (vol. i. p. 482), and 
a considerable number either entirely new or not hitherto found on the 
Chinese coast. He has placed a set of specimens in the hands of Mr. 
Bentham, who has re-examined the whole, and in whose herbarium 
are deposited the original specimens here described. 
RANUNCULACEZÆ. 
1. Clematis wncinata, Champ., sp. n.; scandens, glaberrima, glau- 
cescens, foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis (quinis) petiolulatis ovato- 
lanceolatis uncinato-acuminatis, panicula laxa floribunda, carpellorum 
caudis plumosis.—Folia inflorescentiæ et calyces siccitate nigrescunt. 
Petioli et petioluli subcirrhosi. Segmenta 15-3-pollicaria, basi tri- 
nervia, reticulato-venosa, subtus pallida, basi obtusa, apice in acumen 
recurvum interdum fere cirrhiforme desinentia. Panicula ultra- 
pedalis, opposite ramosa, basi foliata; ramuli superiores et ultimi 
bracteis brevibus subulatis subtensi. Sepala 4, aperta fere 6 lin. ——— 
longa, lanceolata, setaceo-acuminata, dorso glabra et nigricantia, - 
anguste lanato-marginata (intus colorata?). Stamina numerosa, - 
antheris linearibus filamento æquilongis longioribusve.  Ovaria 
8-10, glabra. Styli longe plumosi, summo apice glabri, recurvi, : 
intus stigmatosi. : 
Gathered July 10, 1848, in a ravine behind Mount Parker, near 
Saywan, and not seen in other parts of the island. It is a very dis- 
tinct species among the pinnately divided paniculate Flammule. 
2. Clematis parviloba, Gardn. et Champ., Kew Journ. Bot. vol. i, 
p. 241. 
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